Disaster Recovery? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

23 Jul 2004

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Morgan Tamplin wrote:

...
  I'm not sure if you received my previous message
regarding my possible
 attendance at VCF East. I registered on-line "just in case". As it
 turned out, I was not able to attend for a number of reasons, the last
 being the constant rain on Thursday, July 15, which would have meant bad
 driving.

 The same rain caused local flooding in Peterbough, Canada. There was no
 loss of life but much property damage including some of my computer
 collection housed in a "low-lying" storage facility. I have spant the
 past week doing cleanup. Unfortunately much of my documentation (in boxes
 on the floor) was soaked beyond recovery but I would appreciate any
 advice on possible restoration (or not!) of water-damaged electronics.
 Even links to web sites or discussion groups would be helpful. 
Hi Morgan.

This is very unfortunate!  The best thing to do is immediately transfer
the wet documents to a freezer.  This will effectively freeze-dry the
documents and give you a chance to recover them.

There have been numerous discussions on the Classic Computers mailing list
about this in the past, and so I've copied this reply to that list.  I
would ask that anyone posting replies please also post a reply to Morgan
directly (see his e-mail address in the header please).

Good luck!

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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